Press Roundup Tuesday 4 August 2009

Press Roundup Tuesday 4 August 2009

A selection of stories from today's press and other media that relate to Ekklesia's work, produced daily by James Vincent and covering papers such as The Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent and Guardian.

MPs and peers call for inquiry into torture
Democratic accountability of the security and intelligence agencies is "woefully deficient" and an independent inquiry must be set up to investigate numerous and detailed allegations of their complicity in torture, a cross-party group of senior MPs and peers will say today.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/04/mps-government-inquiry-tortu...

Comment: West must stay alert to rights abuse
Torture in Iraqi prisons was widespread during Saddam Hussein’s time but Britain and the United States hoped to change all that by installing a new, democratic government that would respect the rule of law and human rights.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article6737967.ece

Harriet Harman: 'If only it had been Lehman Sisters'
Harriet Harman yesterday laid the blame for the financial crisis on the male domination of the top jobs in banks. The deputy Labour leader suggested that the presence of more women in the boardrooms of financial institutions could have eased the impact of the meltdown.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/harriet-harman-if-only-it...